Quotes About Control

A nation's not a child, for God's sake. ... It's like a wild horse you tame by breaking it. Or a fiery woman you slap till she sees sense and warms your bed.

Bren MacGuff: Well, honey, doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream.

The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.

When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is.

The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

Many people fear the words Lord and God.

When God is made the master of a family, he disorders the disorderly.

God strikes with his finger, and not with all his arm.

The state authorities have no place in the church of God, no right to control and persecute the conscience.

People who let the weak or greedy drink their blood sometimes have a need to play God.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

This is God's universe, buddy, not yours, and he has the final say about what's ego and what isn't.

It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

She had made him possible. In that sense she was his god. Like God, she was neglected.

Our names... are in the hands of God, Who will preserve them so far as He has use of them, and further we shall have no use of them ourselves.

Evil Rulers Are Never Beyond The Bounds of God's Sovereign Will

If you want to see God laugh, make a plan.

My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.

Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.

Worry is an intrusion into God's providence.

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.

I think the worst way to go is to have somebody think they speak for God. If you look at history, every nation that has operated as if it spoke for God has become violently destructive.

It's nice to know that [God] can destroy us in a myriad of ways.